Graduate Student Conference

GOING GLOBAL: TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES

IN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

A shrinking globe. Photo: Fatima on Flickr, 2006 (https://goo.gl/Vyxmq6)

Friday, April 22, 2016

8:30 AM 5:30 PM
306 and 314 Royce Hall, UCLA

Please join us for a Reception at 306 Royce Hall

after presentations have concluded.

The UCLA International institute is the central hub for global and area studies
at UCLA. Founded in 1958, the Institute educates students, champions
scholarship, and builds academic partnerships throughout the world. The
International Institute is comprised of over 25 research centers and
interdisciplinary academic programs that span the breadth of intellectual
disciplines and geographic locations.

The academic programs offered by the International Institute include:

African Studies (M.A.)

Global Health (minor)

African & Middle Eastern Studies (B.A.)

Global Studies (B.A.)

Asian Studies (B.A.)

International Development Studies (B.A.)

East Asian Studies (M.A.)

Latin American Studies (B.A., M.A.)

European Studies (B.A.)

South Asian Studies (minor)

Todays conference is organized by graduate students in the M.A. programs

at the International Institute and brings together scholars from a wide range
of fields whose research takes an interdisciplinary approach to global issues.

Keynote Speaker: Robin L.H. Derby, Ph.D.

Our Keynote speaker, Robin L.H. Derby is
Associate Professor in the Department of
History and the Latin American Institute at
UCLA. Her research interests include Latin
American political regimes, authoritarianism,
state terror, U.S. imperialism, popular religion,
and cultural history with a focus in the
Caribbean region (especially the Dominican
Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Cuba).
International Institute please visit us online, at http://www.International.ucla.edu/institute.

We would like to extend our gratitude to everyone who participated in

making our Third Annual International Institute Graduate Student Conference
a success:
...the presenters...
Alejandro Garca
Alyssa Goodstein
Amanda Domingues
Amy Zhou
Andrea Suh
Christian Reyes
Clare Beer
Deepak Singhania

Elyan Hill
Emma Colven
Erica Anjum
Grace Ballor
Hope McCoy
Jan Pieter Snoeij
Jenny Jong-Hwa Lee
Jia Feng

Jin Aeng Choi

Sigin Ojulu
Kathleen Bush-Joseph Soumi R. Chowdhury
Liron Lavi
Thomas Thompson
Mack Eason
Manoel G.R. Moreira
Mehrenegar Rostami
Mohammad Rafi
Pallavi Sriram

Chelsi Dimm
Erica Anjum

Hughlin Boyd
Kurt Klein

Natalie Dickson
Niat Afeworki

Magda Yamamoto
Natalie Dickson
Niat Afeworki

Sandy Valdivieso
Sophia Sleap
Tatiana Sulovska

... our moderators

Adria Tinnin
Ana Maria Durn

...the conference committee

Alda Migoni
Amanda Domingues
Chelsi Dimm

Erica Anjum
Jasmine Kim
Kevin Kind

...our volunteers
Connie Zhou
Julia Gutowski

Michelle Lawetzki
Riya Didwania

Shriya Didwania
Takashi Otomo

A special thanks to C. Cindy Fan, Vice Provost of International Studies and

Global Engagement and Christopher Erickson, Senior Associate Vice Provost
and Director of the International Institute for their continued support
throughout the conference organizing process.
...and last, but not least, to our sponsors
UCLA International Institute, GSA Social Sciences Council, UCLA History
Department, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies,
UCLA Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office, UCLA Graduate Division,
and Sidecar Doughnuts.

Conference Schedule

Panel #7:

Cities in Flux: Global

Implications of
Infrastructure and
Urban Planning
Moderated by
Ana Maria Durn,
Urban Planning

The Techno-Politics of Adaptation Infrastructures:

Planning Jakartas Great Garuda Sea Wall Project
Emma Colven, Geography

8:309:00 AM

Check in & Light Breakfast (314 Royce Hall)

9:009:05 AM

Welcome Remarks Chelsi Dimm, Conference Chair

9:059:20 AM

Opening Remarks Robin L.H. Derby, Associate Professor,

Department of History, UCLA (314 Royce Hall)

Decentralization and the Delivery of Basic Services

in a Developing Country: Providing Water and
Sanitation to Urban Consumers in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
Erica Anjum, African Studies

Panel #1:

Music, Dance, and

Migration:
Intercultural
Experiences in
Liminal Spaces

306 Royce Hall

2:303:45 PM
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Panel #8:

Challenging
Eurocentrism:
Decolonial Aesthetics
Moderated by
Niat Afeworki,
African Studies
314 Royce Hall

At Far Off Points, People Pass By: A Transnational

Approach to Iranian and Iraqi Modernist Poetry
Thomas (Levi) Thompson, Near Eastern Languages
and Cultures

Politics, Race, Sex, and Danger: Conservative

Nationalism, the Femme Fatale, and Social Thought
in Manuel Galvezs Historia de Arrabal
Alyssa Goodstein, Latin American Studies

Reception (306 Royce Hall)

Open to registered participants
4:005:30 PM

Best Paper Award Announcement Joseph Watson,

Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, UCLA

Dancing Otherness: Healing, Migration, and

Collective Memory in Ewe Festival and Ritual
Performances in Ghana and Togo
Elyan Hill, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
Orquesta Tipica Touring as Mexican Cultural
Diplomacy (1902-1931): Uncovering Sources to
Write the History of Mexican-American
Community-Building
Alejandro Garca, Musicology

Moderated by
Chelsi Dimm,
African Studies

The Silk Road Today: Intercultural Musical

Encounters
Mehrenegar Rostami, Ethnomusicology

314 Royce Hall

On Dancing Tropes and Political Geographies

Imagining Eighteenth Century Southern
Coromandel
Pallavi Sriram - World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Panel # 2:

The Temporal Aspects of Elections and Democracy:

Evidence from Israel
Liron Lavi, Political Science

Democracy as a
Chronotope: Citizen
Self-Constitution
through Time, Tech,
and Elections

Are Biometric Identification Machines (BIM)

Helping Clean Up Elections in Colombia? Evidence
from Elections to Department Assemblies
Manoel Gehrke Ryff Moreira, Political Science

9:3010:45 AM

Moderated by
Adria Tinnin,
Political Science
306 Royce Hall

Four Years Later: National Identity Politics &

Historical Implications in South Sudan
Sigin Ojulu, African Studies
Is Universal Jurisdiction Imperialist? Assessing
allegations that international criminal law has been
subverted to imperialist ends
Mack Eason, Political Science

Panel #3:

Gender and Health

in Global Contexts
Moderated by
Natalie Dickson,
African Studies &
Public Health

"The Uncertainty of Treatment Decisions: Womens

Use of HIV Treatment in the Context of Option B+ in
Malawi
Amy Zhou, Sociology

Onibus 174: The Violence Around Us and the

Violation in Us
Jin Aeng Choi, Asian Languages and Cultures

Panel #5:

Movement: Migration
and Cultural Identity

Contemplating Quotas: The Effectiveness of Political

Gender Quotas in Kenya
Amanda Domingues, African Studies

Moderated by
Erica Anjum,
African Studies

Balance of Power, Domestic Violence and Health

Injuries: Evidence from Demographic and Health
Survey of Nepal
Soumi Roy Chowdhury, Economics

306 Royce Hall

306 Royce Hall

11:00 AM
12:00 PM

Panel # 4:

Globalized
Education: Local
Needs in the
Context of Western
Model Hegemony
Moderated by
Hughlin Boyd,
Education
314 Royce Hall

Bras OuvertsOpen Arms: An Education-Based

Development Model
Kathleen Bush-Joseph & Jan Pieter Snoeij,
School of Law

Migrant Children in Mexicos Agroindustry:

Exploitation, Migration, and Education
Andrea Suh, Education

1950 Tales as a Taboo: Contextualizing the James

Flint Affair of 1759 in the English East India
Companys Asian Trading World and the Qing
Emperors Coffer
Jia Feng, History

1:002:15 PM
Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia:
A Case Study of South Korea
Jenny Jong-Hwa Lee, Education

Transnationalism and Higher Education: Russian

Faculty Perceptions of Change
Hope McCoy, Education

Panel #6:

Decentralization and
Institutional Reform:
Inter and Intra-state
Public and Private
Strategies
Moderated by
Kurt Klein,
Public Policy

12:001:00
PM

Internet and ICT Usage in the Somali Diaspora

Christian Reyes, Education

Unraveling the Welfare Effects of Administrative

and Political Decentralization in Indonesia
Deepak Singhania, Economics

Selling Conservation - The Eco-Economic Logics of

Land Conservation in Chile
Clare Beer, Geography

Multinational Firms and European Integration:

A Multi-Sector Analysis of Firm Contributions to
EU Development
Grace Ballor, History

Networking Lunch (314 Royce Hall)

314 Royce Hall

The Precariousness of Aryan Belonging:

Confronting Nazi Racial Law and the Determination
of Iranian National Identity
Mohammad Rafi, German